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Total Flop: Obama’s Wedding Registry Fundraising Idea

Remember Obama’s latest fundraising idea? He said you would ask your wedding guests to donate to his campaign instead of sending YOU a gift. What a selfish narcissist.

Let your friends know how important this election is to you—register with Obama 2012, and ask for a donation in lieu of a gift. It’s a great way to support the President on your big day. Plus, it’s a gift that we can all appreciate—and goes a lot further than a gravy bowl.

So far, “the Event Registry” has been all but ignored on social-media sites — even though Facebook, Twitter have been strong for the Obama campaign.

“The number of links and stories about the announcement is very low since the news went live on June 22,” said Meredith Klee, a spokeswoman for the social-media tracking firm Topsy.

Her site’s latest data show 1,137 posts on Twitter about the registry.

And only a few hundred links to the registry have been shared on Facebook — even though Obama has more than 27 million fans on the site

“It’s a gift that we can all appreciate — and goes a lot further than a gravy bowl,” said campaign staffer Laura Wilson …

Who in their right mind would ask their wedding guests to donate to Obama? Even if you liked Obama, why would you politicize your wedding? Besides all the young people getting married now are saddled with a Trillion dollars of student loans and a 20% unemployment rate. Why would they give to the man that is taking their futures away from them?